David E. Goldberg
David E. Goldberg (* 1953 ) is a professor in the "Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering" (IESE) department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign . He is one of the leading scientists in the field of genetic algorithms . Goldberg is the author of one of the most cited books in artificial intelligence and computer science in general: Genetic Algorithms in Search, Optimization, and Machine Learning and co-founder of what is currently the largest conference in the field of genetic algorithms: the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) . He is also the director of one of the most prestigious research laboratories in the field: the Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory (IlliGAL) .
Works
PhD dissertation
- Computer-aided gas pipeline operation using genetic algorithms and rule learning , PhD thesis. University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, MI, 1983.
Books
- Genetic Algorithms in Search, Optimization, and Machine Learning . Addison-Wesley, 1989
- Life Skills and Leadership for Engineers . McGraw Hill, 1995
- The Design of innovation: Lessons from and for competent genetic algorithms . Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002.
- The entrepreneurial engineer . Wiley, 2006.
Web links
- The Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory
- Department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering
- David E. Goldberg homepage
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| SURNAME | Goldberg, David E. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Goldberg, David Edward |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American computer scientist in the field of genetic algorithms |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1953 |